Word: martha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the semiprivate Red Room, where they had hung since Roosevelt's time to the spacious East Room, were moved the full-length White House portraits of George and Martha Washington. . . . Upstairs, in an alcove off his study, Herbert Hoover has hung a growing collection of portraits of himself. Mostly by amateurs, mostly crude and amusing, all gifts, they are what President Hoover calls his "one-man show...
Evelyn Kinder, as a young widow, does some good dancing and stirs up more than the emotions of Billy McIntyre, the sixteen year old. One of the brightest spots in the cast is provided by Martha Morton and Bobby Jarvis who do some clever tap dancing and sing, among other things, "Button Up Your Overcoat". Other snappy tunes are "I Want To Be Bad", and "My Lucky Star". You'll like "Follow Thru", we wouldn't fool...
...YOUNG MAY MOON-Martha Os-tenso?Dodd, Mead...
...first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha Norelius of New York, 1928 Olympic champion lately turned professional, led, with Ruth Tower of Toronto, within splashing distance. After four more laps exhausted competitors were being lifted into escorting boats...
...Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...